Texas Roadhouse confirms second Wichita restaurant

If reaction to previous news aboutTexas Roadhouse is any indication, many residents will be happy to learn that the chain confirms it’s opening a second Wichita restaurant, this one at 2526 N. Greenwich. That’s on Laham Development property in front of Academy Sports & Outdoors on Greenwich just south of K-96.

In April, Have You Heard? reportedthat the restaurant likely would open there – a natural if seemingly late progression since the chain opened its first Wichita restaurant at 6707 W. Kellogg in 2004 to regularly packed dinners.

“It has been one of our top-performing stores for many years, correct,” says spokesman Travis Doster.

He says the company has more than 500 restaurants, about 450 of which are Texas Roadhouses, and is all about controlled growth.

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“It’s been about two years in the making,” Doster says of the new restaurant. “There’s a lot of factors in play here.”

One is that “we always want to not hurt an existing restaurant.”

In this case, Doster says, the second site could help with those long lines at the first site.

“We think this location might help relieve some of that.”

The company also opened its newerBubba’s 33 concept in 2015 on another Laham Development site at Rockwood Plaza just north of the LongHorn Steakhouse at the northeast corner of Kellogg and Towne East Square Drive.

Construction is starting on the new 7,400-square-foot Texas Roadhouse – the same size as the one on West Kellogg – this week.

“It’s a growing area for the city,” Doster says of K-96 and Greenwich.

“We don’t want to be just in a trade area, a business area,” he says. “We like a mix of business and rooftops, we call ’em.”